When it rains it pours in Japan, so you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone not walking around with an umbrella when rain clouds gather. However, when the rain doesn’t fall these things can be a real ...

Japan's parliament on Monday enacted a state budget for the next fiscal year after a rare upper house revision reflecting Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's decision to reverse course on a planned hike ...

A male police officer under the age of 20 was found lying on a toilet cubicle floor, bleeding from a bullet wound to the head, at a police station on Kanagawa Prefecture, on Sunday in an apparent ...

Tokyo led another plunge across Asian markets Monday while gold hit a record high as investors steel themselves for a wave of U.S. tariffs this week that has fueled recession fears. Equities across ...

Police in Uchinada, Ishikawa Prefecture, have arrested a 51-year-old woman on suspicion of negligent driving resulting in death after her car hit and killed an 81-year-old woman. The incident occurred ...

A hospital in Tokyo’s Sumida Ward opened a “baby hatch” for parents to anonymously leave newborn infants in the care of social welfare agencies. The baby hatch at San-ikukai Hospital is the second ...

President Donald Trump says Wednesday will be “Liberation Day" — a moment when he plans to roll out a set of tariffs that he promises will free the United States from foreign goods. The details of ...

Russian drones on Sunday hit a military hospital, shopping center and apartment blocks in Ukraine's second-largest city of Kharkiv, killing two people and wounding dozens, while U.S. President Donald ...

Czech teenager Jakub Mensik upset Novak Djokovic 7-6 (7/4), 7-6 (7/4) to win the Miami Open at Hard Rock Stadium on Sunday. The 19-year-old, ranked 54th in the world, claimed his first title on the ...

Iran's president said Sunday that the Islamic Republic rejected direct negotiations with the United States over its rapidly advancing nuclear program, offering Tehran's first response to a letter that ...

On Sydney's urban fringe, a perfect storm of living cost and geopolitical pressures is brewing for Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the electoral chances of his center-left Labor ...

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Iran on Sunday with bombing and secondary tariffs if Tehran did not come to an agreement with Washington over its nuclear program. In Trump's first remarks since ...